Tahiri offers recommendations on decentralisation in Jordan

The Executive Director of the Kosovo Local Government Institute (KLGI), Mr Besnik Tahiri, as part of his engagement with the National Democratic Institute (NDI), met the Jordanian Minister of Municipal Affairs, Mr Walid Al-Masri, during a two-week working visit to Amman, Jordan, and discussed decentralisation with him. Mr Tahiri said that during the meeting with Minister Al-Masri he presented the findings of his study on decentralisation, offering suggestions for implementing the policies of the decentralised system adopted through Jordan’s basic decentralisation laws.

During the meeting, Mr Tahiri added that it is more than necessary to draw up a roadmap for the effective implementation of local government reforms. Furthermore, Mr Tahiri congratulated Minister Al-Masri on his re-election and on the adoption of the national plan for implementing decentralisation.

During his two-week stay in Jordan, the Executive Director of the KLGI Institute, Mr Besnik Tahiri, held a series of other meetings in Amman, including with the government, parliament and various professional institutes, to discuss the reforms Jordan will implement in its local government.

Mr Tahiri was also received by Jordanian Member of Parliament Mr Jamil Nimri; by the Kosovo Local Government Institute’s partner, the “Al-Hayat Center”; by the Governor of the Irbid region and the Member of Parliament for that area; and by the mayor of Husn.

The purpose of these meetings was to understand the current relations between the central and local levels and to draw up concrete recommendations for achieving the most positive inter-institutional relations possible.